United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News Releases
- 09/13/2016 Farm workers gather to celebrate Gov. Brown signing overtime into law
- 09/13/2016 Overtime bill a precedent. Victory for farm workers
- 08/30/2016 Press Release from Asm. Gonzalez: Farmworker Overtime Bill Heads to Governor
- 08/29/2016 Hundreds of farm workers return to state Capitol for a vote on overtime pay
- 08/25/2016 250-plus farm workers from broad array of crops in every major Calif. ag region give up a day’s wages to lobby for overtime pay after eight hours
- 08/16/2016 Legislators and Faith Leaders Lead 24-Hour Fast for Farmworker Overtime
- 08/03/2016 Tom Steyer joins UFW to distribute water bottles to farm workers
- 08/02/2016 U.S. ambassador joins UFW president, Nicaraguan coffee farm owners to learn how union-company collaboration is raising worker wages by 50% in five years
- 08/01/2016 UFW will ‘sound the alarm’ on suspected heat deaths of farm workers in Kern County area
- 07/20/2016 Workers protest their firing by vineyard because they asked for a pay raise
- 07/01/2016 Senate Committee Approves Farmworker Overtime Bill (Calif.)
- 06/30/2016 State prosecutors hit Gerawan with fresh complaint
- 06/29/2016 Tom Steyer joins farm workers, UFW’s Rodriguez, Bishop Soto by raising alarm over 100°-plus temps in summer harvest seasons
- 06/23/2016 UFW: U.S. high court’s deadlocked ruling over immigration will return to a full panel; ‘we will never forget’ politicians who caused needless suffering
- 06/07/2016 More on passing of Helen Chavez, who helped her husband, Cesar Chavez, give birth to and sustain America’s first enduring farm workers union
- 06/06/2016 Passing of Helen Chavez, who helped her husband, Cesar Chavez, give birth to and sustain America’s first enduring farm workers union
- 06/01/2016 Farm workers’ heroic efforts to pass overtime fall short
- 05/26/2016 Cesar Chavez called Monsignor Gene Boyle to be a priest of the farm worker movement
- 05/22/2016 Saturday & Sunday, May 21-22 in Bakersfield: Recent union gains for farm workers plus new global initiatives to protect workers focus of UFW convention that hears Gov. Jerry Brown Saturday and President Bill Clinton Sunday
- 05/21/2016 Overwhelming vote for UFW by blueberry workers at McFarland ranch with 627 workers
- 05/19/2016 Saturday & Sunday, May 21 & 22 in Bakersfield: UFW convention spotlights recent union gains for farm workers plus new global initiatives to protect workers
- 05/19/2016 UFW improving farm worker lives through proactive union work
- 05/19/2016 Exciting new UFW initiatives for farm workers across state & national borders
- 05/19/2016 UFW links present-day farm worker activism with historic 50-year commemorations
- 05/19/2016 Remarks by Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Senator Robert Kennedy and president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, at UFW pre-convention dinner on Thursday, May 19, 2016.